Name: 英語の歴史を知る (Discover the History of English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:45:26.000Z
Duration: 21 min 37 s
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and today... As you know, I usually teach an aspect of the English language,

未来進行形

but today, we're going to be looking at the English language from a different perspective, a different angle,

and looking at the history of the language

and how it has developed, because the English language hasn't always been the way it is today.

It's developed over hundreds and hundreds of years.

Now, today, hundreds of millions of people speak English all over the world, whether

it's their first language or their second language, or just one of the foreign languages

that they speak and learn at school, and so on. So, hundreds of millions of people speak

English and learn English. But hundreds of years ago, the English language that we know

today didn't really exist. It sort of got put together gradually by different historical

events. So we're going to go back in history now, and have a look at a timeline.

I don't know if you've seen a timeline before, but it is literally the time, the years going

from left to right, like you get on a graph if you've done graphs, and the time goes across

along the line. So the different developments that happened can be shown on that line. So

we're starting here in 55 BC, hundreds of years ago, and we're coming up to... Well, beyond.

We have 1066, here, but because I ran out of space on the board, the time went

on for such a long time, I couldn't get all the centuries in, but I will still tell you

about them. Okay. But these are the very interesting parts, which are on the board.

So, 55 BC, the Roman invasion of Britain, of the U.K., where we are at the moment.

So, you've heard of the Roman Empire with Julius Caesar and all the other Caesars, the Roman

Empire that spread in different directions, and Britain is one of the directions they

spread in. They came here, and stayed for a while, and built some nice buildings, and

they built a wall that goes across between Scotland and England, called Hadrian's Wall,

because the Emperor at the time was called Hadrian. So, anyway, when they came and stayed

for some time, they brought their language with them, the Latin language. Okay? And the

Latin language, it's called a dead language today, but it has influenced so many other

languages, especially in Southern Europe,

so languages like Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, they all come from Latin.

So, in this country, in the English language,

we have had the Latin influence at different times. So, the Romans brought their Latin

language with them. Okay? So that influenced the way people were speaking to each other

as time went on. And the natives of this country started learning Latin words, and it became

Okay, so let's have a look at some of the words that we use today that were influenced

or that came from Latin words. Right? And we have this pie chart, here, which you may

know if you've been studying things for IELTS and the writing task. A pie chart... So, the

whole circle represents 100%. So if you're thinking of all the words in the English language

at the moment, Latin, the Latin words that came from... Partly from the Roman invasion,

we have 29% of the words in the English language have come from a Latin origin, from a source,

Latin source. Okay. So here are just a few of very words that we use every day, really.

Words like: "human", "animal", "dental" to do with the teeth, "decimal" which is to do

with the fingers because we have 10 fingers, "decimal", and "digital", also fingers, "factory"

where things are made, manufacture, "library" where you read books, "libre" meaning book,

"library", the building where the books are kept, "manual" to do with if you do things

with your hand it comes from the Latin word for "hand", "manual". "Lunar" to do with the

moon, because the Latin word for the moon was "luna", "luna".

And "solar" to do with the sun, again, because the Latin word was like that, "solar".

"Military", anything to do with soldiers because the Latin

Roman Empire soldiers were... That was the word that was

used for "soldiers". "Melees" I think. And we also get our "mile", the distance, the

mile from that, because that was the distance that they would march, I think, before they

had a rest or something like that. So "military" is to do with soldiers. "Science" to do with

knowledge. "Science", and "station", the railway station, the bus station is a place where

you stand still before you move off, and that also comes from a Latin word to be static

in one place. Okay. Okay, so that's the Latin. You'll notice also that later on in history,

Latin kept coming back, so there and there, but that's the Latin from these three points

in history when we had visitors of one sort or another.

Okay, so let's move on then, the next major event. I've put 450 AD, but I'm going to start

putting century numbers now, because it's simpler. So, 5th... The 5th century, okay,

Germanic migration. That's people from roughly where Germany is today in the mainland Europe

moved across. Okay? From the Saxon, Saxon area of Germany. Saxony. So, the language

they brought with them was a kind of... Well, it became Anglo-Saxon, because it got merged

with the English we already had, the Anglo part, with the Saxon part added. It... And

that's another name for that is Old English, Old English, which looks totally different

from the English we have today. So they brought a different language with them, and that got

all mixed in. If you think of a big cooking pot and different ingredients being put in,

and it just keeps cooking and cooking over time, that's how it was developing. Okay.

So, Germanic. Let's have a look at how much Germanic language there is in English today.

So, looking at our pie chart again, we've got Germanic 26%, so just over a quarter of

the words in the English language today come from a Germanic source. And I've put some

little abbreviations here; Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, and Dutch.

These are all roughly sort of from the Germanic area,

and the Dutch words as well are all mixed in there, too,

because Holland isn't that far away either.

Okay. So, let's just see a few examples of

the Germanic words. They're often quite short words and words we use every day, like "above",

"again", "and", "apple", "bad" and "good",

parts of the body especially, "eye" and "feet" and "arm", "boy" and "girl",

these are all the Germanic type of words.

"House", "hand", "bread", so parts of the body. "Food", all of that kind of thing.

So moving on, in the 6th century, before this, we had been what you call a Pagan country,

sort of pre-Christianity. In the 6th century, Saint Augustine came and started converting

people to Christianity. Okay. And that meant bringing languages with him, like the Bible

that was written in these different languages, other books, books of learning. So, again,

Latin came in. And Greek as well came in, and Hebrew all came with the Christianity,

which spread around the whole country. So we've covered Latin already. Let's just have

a look at Greek in our pie chart to see how much influence that has had on the language

today. So looking at Greek, it's actually quite small, just 6%.

But they're very sort of... They're kind of words that are used in a sort of academic life,

and the word "academic" itself is one of them; "academic" is a Greek word.

mobile phone, you wouldn't believe that it had come from an old Greek word, but it has.

"Android". Okay? A word like "basic", "cinema" even, "climate", "democracy", "economy", "geography",

"history", "idea" because philosophy, thinking, ideas is very important

and had a big... Greece had a big influence on that.

"Politics" and "technology" all come from Greek.

Okay, Hebrew, we don't have unless it's included under other one of the other influences which

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